| King's Quest VI: Heir Today, Gone Tomorrow | |
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| Developer(s) | Sierra On-Line |
| Publisher(s) | Sierra On-Line |
| Director(s) | Jane Jensen, William D. Skirvin, Roberta Williams |
| Producer(s) | Robert W. Lindsley
William D. Skirvin |
| Designer(s) | Jane Jensen, Roberta Williams |
| Writer(s) | Jane Jensen, Roberta Williams |
| Lead Programmer(s) | Robert W. Lindsley |
| Lead Artist(s) | Michael Hutchison, John Shroades |
| Composer(s) | Chris Braymen |
| Platform(s) | Macintosh |
| Release(s) | April 1993: Macintosh |
| Genre(s) | Point-and-click adventure |
| Mode(s) | Single-player |
King's Quest VI: Here Today, Gone Tomorrow (Mac) is an adventure game developed and published by Sierra On-Line on April 1993, and it serves as the sixth game in the King's Quest saga. This is a special Macintosh release of the game produced for Mac System 7 and up. It underwent a number of changes to the interface location, the intro movie, and other minor details.
Unique Features[]
- The engine is still based on SCI, but the file structure is a bit different than other versions of the game.
- The game has the morphing Halfdome to Sierra logo like in the Enhanced windows version.
- The intro movie is a QuickTime video that can run upwards of 'millions of colors'. However the actual game only runs in 256 colors.
- Improved soundtrack with sampled instruments, similar to amiga version (not quite is good as SC-88 or MT-32, but better instruments than DOS adlib).
- The intro is unique to this version and has its own edits, while it lacks speech it is narrated at points with descriptions much like a 'silent film', see KQ6 Mac transcript.
- The menu is seperate is below the playing field, and always viewable, it is 'greyed out' on the title screen.
- The ingame text uses a hires font, larger sized letters in larger narration box.
Macintosh Conversion Team[]
- Macintosh Producers: Dan Carver and Stuart Moulder
- Macintosh Programming: Jason Hickingbottom, Keith Nemitz, and Krishnan Shankar
- Macintosh Musicians: Rudy Helm and Dan Kehler
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